James PATTERSON
“Whether they love me or not, everyone agrees the greatest and most important place in Palm Beach is Mar-a-Lago,” Trump told the Washington Post after winning his battle. “I took this incredible and opened it, essentially,
ultimate place and made it that I owned it made it a lot
to the people of Palm Beach. The fact easier to get along with the Palm Beach establishment.” The Breakers hotel, Trump explained, “gets the [island’s]
leftovers.”
It cost $100,000 to join the club. Members paid $14,000
yearly in dues. And although Epstein had never properly joined
the club, Trump’s friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell gave Epstein
unlimited use of the facilities. This arrangement ended when a member's
complained to her wealthy father: while relaxing at Mar-a-Lago, house.
young daughter
she'd been approached and invited out to Epstein’s The girl said that she had gone and that Epstein had tried to
get her to undress. The girl’s father had gone directly to Trump, who—in no
uncertain terms—told Epstein that he was barred from Mar-a-
Lago. Because no complain
action. But years later, a woman named Virginia Roberts wo
say that, as a young girl, she'd had an id
t was filed, the police had taken no uld
Mar-a-Lago. According
lawsuit against Epstein, she was
Mar-a-Lago, earning about nine d
Maxwell approach interested in learning to be a massage therapis
to a court document Virginia fled in her civil 7 a changing-room assistant at ollars an hour, when Ghislaine —
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Virginia was shocked, experience with massages, apy protocol. “Ms. Maxwel on her underwear and : [Jeffrey's] body, impliedly expected to do,” the filing [Virginia] to take off her c: sive about doing this, but, in by removing everything but to remove her underwear a escalated, with [Jeffrey] a battering, exploiting, and al in various locations, incluc At the end of this sexua Ms. Maxwell giddily told [ and told her she had ‘lots c
_ hundreds of dollars, told h
directed one of her employe
At the time, Virginia wa
turned out, she was. Like the other girl, Virginia told her father
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